POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT AS A POLICY SCIENCE: A POLEMIC

Abstract

The foreign assistance agencies need to be able to plan and program for this 'political' side of the modernization process when decisions from among alternative foreign assistance programs and projects are called for. The White House and the Congress have indicated to AID that they are not satisfied with program evaluations stated almost exclusively in terms of economic indicators of development. And they are beginning to call for political indicators more meaningful than the way a country votes in the United Nations on East-West issues or its formal alliance memberships. The profession of political science will be expected to render advice to the policymaker on the essential political questions of constitutionalism, regime, the representative system, center-local relationships, civil liberties. It is time to refurbish this competency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0657002

Entities

People

  • Seyom Brown

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Congress
  • Economic Models
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • Money
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Political Theory
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • Sociopolitics
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting